Senior DevOps (8-12 yrs)

The team at Advanced Space is leading humanity back to the Moon and pioneering innovative solutions in the space industry. Based in Westminster Colorado, this incredible team is looking for a skilled and experienced Sr. DevOps engineer with 8-12 years of experience who can lead the design, implementation and continuous improvements of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure.  Responsibilities include AWS Organization, SCP concepts, secure-by-default designs, and having the ability to use tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for proactive monitoring and logging. Advanced Space is a rapidly growing, privately held business that incorporates our core values in all that we do.  

Advanced Space exists to support the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space and operates with four core values: We are customer obsessed and mission focused; when we see it, we solve it; we are one team, motivated by our vision; and we bring technical excellence and inexhaustible curiosity. 

Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership for DevOps architecture, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices across multiple programs and internal platforms. 
• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure solutions in AWS and other cloud environments. 
• Drive technical standards and best practices for Infrastructure as Code, system hardening, monitoring, logging, incident response, and deployment automation. 
• Moderate proficiency using languages such as Python and bash scripting. 
• Expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform for managing infrastructure.  
• Can apply understanding of engineering process to guide Software and DevOps projects from start to finish, in all phases.  
• Keeping up with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in DevOps and related fields.  
• Experience with automation tools and scripting to streamline development and deployment processes.  
• Understanding of server management, configuration, and maintenance 
• Beginning to contribute to company best practice improvements. 
• Engaging in ongoing education and training to stay current with industry best practices and innovations. 
• Familiarity with Git and other version control systems for managing code repositories 
• Skills in cybersecurity, threat investigation, vulnerability assessment, and change management. 
• Ability to use tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for proactive monitoring and logging. 

This position is open to U.S. Citizens only, as required by applicable laws and regulations. 

We do not provide visa sponsorship or support work authorization for this role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship. 

Required Skills: 

• B.S. required or equivalent professional work experience required; Master's preferred 
• Cloud Professional cert (AWS/Azure/GCP DevOps Pro) OR demonstrated enterprise infra leadership 
• Security+ current 
• Demonstrated leadership of DR/HA design & compliance automation 

Preferred Skills  

• CISSP, CEH, advanced Kubernetes/IaC 
• Leads critical DevOps projects, ensures the stability and scalability of production systems, and champions improvements to CI/CD pipelines. 
• Provides leadership and clear direction 
• Facilitates cross-functional meetings that integrate DevOps perspectives into application design and infrastructure planning. 
• Sets learning goals for personal and team development in state-of-the-art DevOps techniques, including blue/green deployments and chaos engineering. 
• Owns critical components of the deployment process, balancing rapid release cycles with robust operational practices that ensure high availability and security. 
• Serves as a go-to resource for solving difficult technical problems that span multiple engineering disciplines. 
• Champions ethical conduct within the team, establishing clear expectations and addressing issues promptly and fairly. 

Compensation and Benefits: 

• Base Salary Range – $125,000 - $145,00 based on role, employee experience, and location 
• Signing bonus 
• Quarterly Performance bonuses 
• Company provided health insurance and 401K plan upon eligibility 
• Unlimited vacation time and extensive flexibility 
• Relocation Assistance 

Eligibility Requirements 

• This is an IMMEDIATE hiring need.   
• Ability to work in the Westminster, CO office 5 days/week during core business hours. 
• Applicants must be a US Citizen 
• Top Secret Security Clearance required 

About the company: 

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services, (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL. 

These competencies are leveraged by a dynamic, flexible, and agile team with cross domain knowledge. We have a small but growing team that works collaboratively across projects. We provide flexibility, and an opportunity for passionate employees to contribute directly to meaningful projects. Trusted to take on the challenge, the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit™ to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. 

Advanced Space, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. 

Advanced Space, LLC recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.